Professor of chemistry and natural history, Edward Hitchcock also studied and wrote on natural theology.

Raimi also wears a suit with white shirt and tie on-set in another homage to Hitchcock.

The director also cites Alfred Hitchcock ’ s The Wrong Man and Jack Hazan ’ s A Bigger Splash as inspiration for his camerawork in the movie.

Taft also showed his political ineptness by choosing Frank Hitchcock to be Chairman of the Republican Party.

Director Alfred Hitchcock also saw the 1950 screen test and would become one of Kelly's last mentors.

Alfred Hitchcock almost single-handedly ushered in the spy-adventure genre, also firmly establishing the use of action-oriented " set pieces " like the famous crop-duster scene and the Mount Rushmore finale in North by Northwest.

Other notable people, such as footballer and former England Captain David Beckham, I, Claudius star Derek Jacobi, former Essex and England cricket Captain Graham Gooch, and the film director and producer Alfred Hitchcock, were also born in the borough.

The city of " Dowagiac " is also mentioned in the 1959 Alfred Hitchcock film, " North by Northwest " at 1: 04: 15 into the film as a destination read by the overhead announcer in the train station.

Although a remake of the original Cape Fear, Scorsese's update is also greatly influenced by another Mitchum film, The Night of the Hunter, and the work of Alfred Hitchcock ( signaled by the opening credits by regular Hitchcock collaborator Saul Bass and its score by another, Bernard Herrmann ).

During the 1960s, he continued his television career, with guest appearances on such series as The Barbara Stanwyck Show, Route 66 ( a moving portrayal of a doomed pilot in the two-part episode " Fly Away Home "); Alfred Hitchcock Presents ; Perry Mason ( one of four actors in four consecutive episodes substituting for series star Raymond Burr, who was recovering from surgery ); Wagon Train ( a 90-minute colour episode as an English big game hunter who, in a display of amazing marksmanship, is able to kill an Indian chief from a great distance ); The Great Adventure ( in an installment of this anthology series about remarkable events in American history, he portrayed Confederate president Jefferson Davis ); Daniel Boone, ( in episodes " The Sound of Wings " and " First in War, First in Peace "); Lost in Space ( another two-part episode — as an all-powerful alien zookeeper, " The Keeper ", he worked one last time with his Third Man costar Jonathan Harris ); The Time Tunnel ( as Captain Smith of The Titanic, in the series ' 9 September 1966 premiere episode ); Batman ( as the villainous Sandman, in league with Julie Newmar's Catwoman ); three episodes of The Invaders ( as a malign variation of the Klaatu persona, culminating in a parallel plot also involving an assembly of world leaders ); an episode of I Spy (" Lana "); and two episodes of The F. B. I.

She did not win that year ( Ginger Rogers took home the award for Kitty Foyle ), but Fontaine did win the following year for Best Actress in Suspicion, which co-starred Cary Grant and was also directed by Hitchcock.

She also starred on television, including leading roles in " The Storm " ( 1961 ) episode of Thriller and " The Lonely Hour " ( 1963 ) episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.

Pat Hitchcock also worked for Jean Negulesco on The Mudlark ( 1950 ), which starred Irene Dunne and Alec Guinness, playing a palace maid, and she had a bit-part in DeMille's The Ten Commandments.

Sabotage, also released as The Woman Alone, is a 1936 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Yet, Hitchcock remained faithful to the novel in having the bomb go off, and it also allowed him to justify in the movie that the boy's mother would eventually kill her husband, who was responsible for the boy's death, and get away with it.

Cronyn also made appearances in television, The Barbara Stanwyck Show, the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode " Kill With Kindness " ( 1956 ) and Hawaii Five-O episodes " Over Fifty, Steal " ( 1970 ) and " Odd Man In " ( 1971 ).

For later seasons, opening remarks were also filmed with Hitchcock speaking in French and German for the show's international presentations, reflecting his real-life fluency in both languages.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents can also be seen on the classic TV network Antenna TV.

( Skelton also told another version of this story, with Raymond Hitchcock as the actor.

Hitchcock also devised " a celebrated scene " that circumvented the Production Code's ban on kisses longer than three seconds — by having his actors disengage every three seconds, murmur and nuzzle each other, then start right back up again.

* The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1956 film ), a film by Alfred Hitchcock starring James Stewart and Doris Day ( also unrelated to the 1922 Chesterton book )

" They also demonstrate Hitchcock's gift for deft visual storytelling: For most of the film, Bruno is the actor, Guy the reactor, and Hitchcock always shows Bruno's feet first, then Guy's.

Hitchcock also brought in Ben Hecht to rewrite the ending.

* In Francis Iles's novel Before the Fact ( 1932 ), which is also set among the landed gentry ( and which was filmed in 1941 by Alfred Hitchcock as Suspicion ), a wealthy young woman becomes the wife, and eventually the victim, of a ruthless criminal.

His business activities included the loan of his contracted artists to other studios, including Alfred Hitchcock, Ingrid Bergman, Vivien Leigh and Joan Fontaine.

Lacking the lavish production values and visual spectacle of its Hollywood equivalents, Elstree Calling is now something of a curio item interesting chiefly for two reasons: Alfred Hitchcock ( then contracted to BIP ) was one of several directors employed on the production ; and the film is quite possibly the first ever to refer directly to television ( the linking narrative concerns a television broadcast of the revue, some six years before the BBC began regular television transmissions ).

Woolfson came up with the idea of making an album based on developments in the film industry, where directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick were the focal point of the film's promotion, rather than individual film stars.

He is tied with Robert Altman and Alfred Hitchcock for the most Academy Award nominations for best director without a single win.

1929 was a watershed year: William Wellman with Chinatown Nights and The Man I Love, Rouben Mamoulian with Applause, Alfred Hitchcock with Blackmail ( Britain's first sound feature ), were among the directors to bring greater fluidity to talkies and experiment with the expressive use of sound ( Eyman, 1997 ).

The British directors Alfred Hitchcock and David Lean are among the most critically acclaimed of all-time, with other important directors including Charlie Chaplin, Michael Powell, Carol Reed and Ridley Scott.

Several other new talents emerged during this period, and Alfred Hitchcock would confirm his status as one of the UK's leading young directors with his influential thrillers The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ), The 39 Steps ( 1935 ) and The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 ), before moving to Hollywood.

Hitchcock primarily made thrillers, which, according to the Cahiers du cinema crowd, were popular with the public but were dismissed by the critics and the award ceremonies, although Hitchcock's Rebecca won the Oscar for Best Picture at the 1940 Academy Awards.

He reunited with Hitchcock at the end of the decade in Under Capricorn ( 1949 ) as an Australian land-owner with a shady past.

* Following Hitchcock's death, Universal, which had previously purchased the rights to Psycho ( 1960 ), eventually acquired the distribution rights to the four other films ( along with a former WB feature, Rope ) in 1983 from the Hitchcock estate ( which still holds all other ancillary rights to these films — the estate is overseen by his daughter, Patricia );

Raimi occasionally appears on-screen in his own movies, usually in similar fashion to the cameos made by his idol Alfred Hitchcock: A silhouette behind a projection screen ( Spider-Man, in the wrestling scene ), a passer-by with some kind of physical interaction with the film's protagonist ( Spider-Man 2, as the student whose bookbag hits Peter Parker in the back of the head ), a hitchhiking fisherman accompanied by Robert Tapert in The Evil Dead.

Woodley's and Dobe Newton's song " I Am Australian ", which was recorded by the Seekers, and by Durham with Russell Hitchcock and Mandawuy Yunupingu, has become an unofficial Australian anthem.

After directing episodes for the revitalized version of ' 50s /' 60s anthology horror series Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre, Burton received his next big project: Beetlejuice ( 1988 ), a supernatural comedy horror about a young couple forced to cope with life after death, and the family of pretentious yuppies who invade their treasured New England home.

Leigh had hoped to co-star with Olivier and made a screen test for Rebecca, which was to be directed by Alfred Hitchcock with Olivier in the leading role.

In 1969, a plaque to Leigh was placed in the Actors Church, St Paul's, Covent Garden ; in 1985, a portrait of her was included in a series of postage stamps, along with Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Chaplin, Peter Sellers and David Niven to commemorate " British Film Year ".

* Secret Agent ( 1936 ) with John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll, and Robert Young, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Hitchcock was quick to bring in men closely allied with big business, which further alienated the progressive wing of the party.

It is a significant aspect of British cinema, with leading British directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and Carol Reed making notable contributions and many films set in the British Secret Service.

Alfred Hitchcock did much to popularise the spy film in the 1930s with his influential thrillers The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ), The 39 Steps ( 1935 ), Sabotage ( 1937 ) and The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 ).

* Notorious ( 1946 ), Spy thriller from Alfred Hitchcock with Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman.